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Hamilton McDowell. An ordinary young business man. 

Nellte McDowell. His wife— a sweet little home body. 

A Messenger. With name of store on cap. 
The Baby. 



BARGAIN DAY. 



Scene. — The McDowell apartmcfits. 

McDowell, {enters door c. a7id calls " Nellie " — 
Takes off gloves, hat and coat durmg speech) Nellie ! 
Won't my wife be surprised ! First time I've been 
home for lun< h for months ! Shouldn't have come 
to-day if there had been a chance of getting a bite to 
eat down town. — A National Association Meeting of 
— something or other. Four State Conventions, and 
ten railroad excursions. — And they didn't bring their 
own lunch counters with them ! I tried every restau- 
rant, I knew, and couldn't get in for love or money. 
I even went to Sells and Co's Department Store. 
Same thing, only worse — Bargain Day I Two 
policemen managing the crowds 1 Letting fools out 
with bundles and letting in more fools. ( JVaks 
to door v..) Where's Nellie? {Comes back stage c.) 
Thank Heaven, that is one thing my wife does not do 
— attend these idiotic bargain sales. Funny she 
doesn»'t come. She must be putting the baby to sleep. 
I'll call Katie. {Goes\.. and calls " Katie") O, I for- 
got. This is Katie's day out. And my wife must 
have taken the baby and gone round to her mothers. 
Funny I didn't think of that before. I'll call her up 
and have her run over and get me something to eat — 
I'm hungry. {Goes to phone at desk r. c.) 345 Woods- 
dale, — Yes, that's right. Hello, this you, mother? 
Yes this is Hamilton. I'm home. Tell Nellie I said — 
How's that ? Not there ! Why, that's funny ! I won- 
der where she is ! Wait a minute, I'll see. {Goes 

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4 BARGAIN DAY. 

quickly to door l. retnrin?ig at oiice) Hello, mother. 
Baby's bottles are all there — the entire half dozen, 
freshly sterilized. You say you saw her run into 
Jennie's ? With the baby ? What time ? O then 
she'll be back soon. Yes. She wouldn't stay away 
over the three hours without the baby's milk. No 
thanks, she'll be here soon, and then she will get me 
something to eat. Wait ! I think I heard the front 
door. Yes I did. She's coming. Good-by. 

{^He goes to doo?- center, and stands close at the side of it, 
i?itending to surprise her whe?i she comes. lie is 
S7?iili?ig in a?iticipation, hut his sjnile changes to one 
of astonishment when she enters.) 

Suffering Moses ! Where have you Been. 

Nellie, {in a most pleasant and happy to7ie) At 
the bargain sale ! 

{^He collapses ofi a chair. She stumbles in loaded down 
with bundles, boxes, ^'C, her dress is tor?i and 
trailing, her hair is down and her hat is over one 
ear, but her face is radiant with the joy of the bar- 
gain hunter. She laughs — 

I never thought of your coming home to-day dear, 
or I sbould'nt have gone. But you'll forgive me, won't 
you dear ? I've had such a good time and I'm just 
dying to show you some of my lovely bargains. Come, 
help me get away from some of these. [lie coines to 
her assista?ice, throwi?ig some of the bujidles right and 
left) O, do be careful, Hamilton. Doji't throw that 
down like that. {She deposits some of her packages care- 
fully on a table l.) Such exciting fun as I had ! 
{Laughs) And such a crowd 1 {Turns) You never 
saw the like ! 

McDowell, {standing ivith his ha?ids in his pockets, 
teetering back and forth and looking at her angrily) No I 
I never did. 

Nellie, {chuckling and disposing of her bundles) 



BARGAIN DAY. 5 

Such a scramble ! Do you know Hamilton it reminded 
me of our wedding day and now {Standing off from 
table) Now, that I have all these packages here it 
looks more like it than ever 1 

McDowell, {coming to her) If I remember any- 
thing about our wedding day it was that we had some- 
thing to eat, 

Nellie. Now don't be cross. I've got something. 
Right here ! {Chuckling) The very thing. I didn't 
intend to buy it — but a woman next me told me 1 had 
better take it, so I did. A whole pound for ten cents 
— marked down from i2i (twelve and a half) what do 
you think of that for a bargain ? And the bread to go 
with it — three for eight cents ! 

McDowell. Dried Beef — and stale bread ! If 
that isn't enough to drive a hungry man to drink, I 
wouldn't say so. I came home to get something fit 
to eat, I did. If that's the best you can do I'm going. 
{Starts for coat) 

Nellie. Ah, Hammy, please. I never saw you 
act this way. {Catches his coat and draws him back) 

McDowell. And I never saw you act this way — 
Look at your dress ! Look at your hat — Look — ! 

Nellie. It's an old one, dear, and I saved enough 
this morning to get me a new one. Yes I did. Now 
sit down just a minute. {He sits reluctaiitly) If you 
don't like the dried beef you don't need to eat it ; it 
will keep. 

McDowell. Keep ! It's been doing that for a 
year. 

Nellie. Well, you can't expect dried beef to be 
fresh. The clerk told me that himself. What do you 
guess is in this box ? Eh ? 

McDowell {doggedly) Second-hand sausages. 

Nellie. Nothing of the sort 1 Look ! A safety 
razor — marked down to ^1.89. Do you know I could 
have hugged the clerk when he showed me this. I 
never realized before the dangers you have been ex- 
posed to all these years. Think of it, dear — how many 



6 BARGAIN DAY. 

times you might have cut your throat with your old 
razor and I never knew it. Why, it was as good as a 
sermon to hear that young man. I told him he was an 
angel. Hammy, his eyes were blue. 

McDowell. I hate blue eyes ! 

Nellie. Why Hammy! Mine are blue! 

McDowell. I'm hungry, I tell you — I ask for 
something to eat — and you show me a razor ! And 
then you blame me for getting upset. 

Nellie. But Hammy ! 

McDowell. And don't call me Hammy. It makes 
me think of — dried beef. Are you going to get me 
my lunch or are you not. 

Nellie. {crymg) That's just the way — If — a 
woman — tries — to save a nickel now and then — why — 
why — she gets scolded — {Cries; he waits a itiim-cie — 
then comes over to her.) 

McDowell. There ! there 1 I didn't mean — But I 
— well, I suppose I was a little hasty. There, there. 
We'll forget it Eh ? 

Nellie. {She turns to put her arins about his neck 
ajid still has the razor box in her hands. She rubs his 
cheek) Goody 1 You'll have to use it soon. 

McDowell. Use it ? 

Nellie. The safety razor. {IIa?tds if to him and 
he walks to other side of the stage with it) And you'll 
be careful with it, won't you, dear ? 

McDowell. O, certainly. {Drops it i?i ivaste 
basket) 

Nellie. And you will let me show you the rest of 
my wonderful bargains ? 

McDowell, {gets out watch and looks at it) Oh, if 
I must. 

Nellie. Now put up the watch. 

McDowell. But what about my lunch ? 

Nellie. Just a minute. Here's something else for 
you, dear. Six of them for seventy-five cents ! {Pro- 
duces six very loud flashy ties) 

McDowell. Seventy-five cents I 



BARGAIN DAY. 7 

Nellie. Don't you think they were worth it ? 

McDowell. Y — Yes — but my dear — 

Nellie. Now don't think I was extravagant. I 
don't mind at all what I spend for you, dear — just so 
you're satisfied. Here put one on. {She makes him 
put on a particularly loud one. He does so under pro- 
test) And these — these are for me. Don't think you 
are the 07ily one that gets the benefit of my shopping. 

McDowell. I hope not. 

Nellie. I wish you would look at the perfect fit. 
And just the color I wanted. Marked down from 
$3.00 to 78 cents. What do you think of that for a 
bargain in gloves ? Eh ? 

(^Durifig this speech, she has been putting the gloves o?i. 
The right hand goes o?i perfectly, but when she 
attempts to put the left glove on she 7?iakes the start- 
ling discovery that both gloves are for the same 
ha7id.) 

Hammy I They have given me two gloves for the 
same hand I Both for the right. 

McDowell, {laughing) That's where you got left ! 

Nellie. No. I said the right 1 Both for the 
right 1 I could cry if it would do any good. 

McDowell. Bargains ! 

Nellie. They won't exchange them. I know 
what I'll do, Hammy, I'll save them for the Salvation 
Army people. They mhy run across some one who 
has had a hand taken off in their army. Anyway 
I've saved — Let me see. The original cost was $3.00 
That would make each glove cost $1.50. Now I only 
gave 78 cents for two, and counting it as the price of 
one good glove, that would make a saving of : 8 from o 
leaves two (2) putdown the 2. 7 from 15 — no, it's 14. 
7 from 14 leaves 7. Then there is the o. Hammy, 
when you are subtracting, and there's one in your 
upper left hand corner of figures, what do you do with 
it ? Wait till I get a pencil. ( Vejy rapidly) 



8 BARGAIN DAY. 

McDowell. I've had enough of this. As far as I 
see, I'm no nearer getting anything to eat now than 
I was fifteen minutes ago. {Starts) 

Nellie. Honestly, dear, if you'll just let me show 
you one more. Ifs for you. The greatest bargain of 
them all ! Guess ! {Holds box for him to see) 

McDowell. Not CIGARS ! ! ! ! 

Nellie. That's right for once. I had intended to 
save them for your Christmas gift, but you seemed — 
so — so rather cross with me that I'm going to cheer 
you up now. Open the box, dear, and have a smoke. 
I don't mind. 

McDowell. I'll take 'em with me to the office — 
and smoke them there. 

Nellie. Oh, go on. I love the flavor of a good 
cigar. {Turns her back. He opens the box, smells of 
them, then dimips them in the waste basket) You know 
I love the flavor of a good cigar. 

McDowell. Yes, so do I. {Takes one from his 
coat a?id lights it) 

Nellie. My, that does smell good. You'll never 
say again that a woman can't pick a good cigar, will 
you ? — You should have seen the lovely little Turkish 
room where they sold those cigars. Men sitting 'round 
with cunning fez caps and Turkish trousers. And the 
most beautiful oriental rugs on the floor. The cigars 
just couldn't help being good under those harmonious 
conditions. Now that you are so comfy, I'm going to 
show you one more bargain before I get you something 
to eat. I'm so excited that I couldn't eat a bite myself 
until I had showed you these. Look! These lovely 
little shoes. Marked from $8.00 — Mind you, $8.00. 
You can see the original price mark yourself. There ! 
Marked from $8.00 down to $6.98 ! ! 1 {Laughs) And 
the time I had getting them ! {During rest of speech 
she is squeezing her feet into shoes) You see the counter 
was piled sky high with these shoes, and each pair was 
tied together. Of course some of them were better 
bargains than the others. {He settles himself zaith a 



BARGAIN DAY. 9 

sigh of resignation and pulls a 7ie2uspaper off the table 
and reads) When I saw this pair I made a grab for 
it and another women made a grab at the same time. 
She got hold of one shoe and 1 the other. {Grunting 
with the effort of getting her fo'dt in) Then we pulled — 
she one way, and I the other. {Giggles) Naturally 
the string broke ! And away I went ! {Laughs) And 
away she went! I fell back against a woman just be- 
hind me, and I guess she thought I did it on purpose, 
for she gave me the awfullest shove with her elbow — 
the sharpest elbow I ever felt. 'M 'M I'm sore here 
yet. It wasn't nice of her, was it ? {Pause) I say, 
it wasn't nice of her, was it ? When I fell back, I 
ripped my dress from the waist — and — well, some 
ladies pinned me together, but I still held on to my 
shoe. And I didn't give it up either. The other 
woman didn't want to give hers up either — but when 
she tried to get it on — she found she could not get her 
foot in. You see a Double A is very small. {Grunt- 
ing again) And so I got the shoe. But the jam around 
that shoe counter ! I had to call a policeman to get me 
out after the fight. 

McDowell. {looki?ig over the paper) What ! My 
wife called a policeman I ! 

Nellie. Now — now — it was only o?ie policeman. 
And he was so delicate in handling the people. He 
never used his club o?ice. 

McDowell. Really I ! ! 1 1 1 {Fine sarcasm) 

Nellie. And he said he thought I deserved the 
shoes after the way I had struggled. He was a nice 
man, Hamilton. 

McDowell. {cru7iching the paper) I should say 
so. 

Nellie. I told him you would agree with him. 
{Gets up on her feet) OUCH 1 ! 1 {He laughs) 

McDowell. Another BARGAIN I ! A fine BAR- 
GAIN ! I ( Walks across and looks at her shoes) 

Nellie, {wincing) O, they'll stretch — anyway, 
they are worth the price — for I got a beautiful illus- 



10 BARGAIN DAY. 

trated song they gave with every pair. Now, where 
did I put that music ? {She hobbles to the table and 
searches for the music) Here it is. I'll show you how 
it goes. {Hobbles to piano. Places the music on the 
piano and seating herself with difficulty she starts to 
play, but after o?ie look at the title she screams a?id turns 
from the piano — -gasping) 

McDowell, {who has started to light another cigar) 
I knew they were too tight ! Serves you right 

Nellie, {kicking off the shoe, and barely missing 
hi77i) It isn't the shoe, it's the song — I've left THE 
BABY! I I 

McDowell, {looking and reading the title : " Baby's 
Lullaby ") Well, don't scream like a Comanche Indian, 
Jennie will take care of him. Mother said 

Nellie. I went in to see if Jennie would keep him 
while I went down town, but she had to go to the dress- 
maker's and so — so — I — took him with me to the Bar- 
gain Sale — and — I — left him ! 

McDowell. And you never said anything to me 

Nellie. I never thought of it 'till I saw the song — 
I was so busy. What will I do .? What will I do ? 
My baby ! ! ! 

McDowell. Where did you leave him? {Goes to 
phone) 

Nellie, (walking up and down) At the Depart- 
ment Store 

McDowell, {becoming excited) But what Depart- 
ment Store ? What's the number ? 

Nellie. I don't know — It was Sell's Store — O 
get them, quick — quick. Please. My baby 1 

McDowell, {searching throngh the telephone book) 
Hello! Hello! Is this the Exchange? {To wife) 
Stop that sniffling! {To phone) I wasn't talking to 
you. Well, you give me — wait a minute — {To wife) 
Now you see, you've put me all out. Hello. Give me 
3456 Main. Yes. Is this Sell's Department Store ? 
Wait a minute. {To wife) What department ? {To 
phone) No, I know what department store this is. 



BARGAIN DAY. H 

O — Well, why didn't you say the line was busy. Well, 
I want them right away — Do you understand ? 

Nellie, {sinking into a chair) My baby 1 Why 
don't they hurry ? 

McDowell. Hello. 3456 Main. Yes, that's what 
I said. (Nellie j-Z^zr/i- to get tcf) Now, you sit still for 
a minute. {To wife) {To pho?ie) No, I didn't mean 
that for you. I want Main 3456. This Main 3456 ? 
Well, thank Heaven, — we've lost a baby. I say, I 
want my baby ! MY WIFE LOST HER BABY ! 1 ! 
Can't you understand ? ? In your Department Store I 
What do you suppose I'd be calling your place up for 
if she didn't lose it? How's that? {To wife) He 
wants to know in what department. 

Nellie. Tell him at the Razor Department. 

McDowell. At the Razor Department. Well, give 
me that department, quick ! 

Nellie, {comes to phone) Yes, quick ! ! Quick ! 1 

McDowell, {to wife) Keep still ! {To phone) I 
mean is this the Razor Department ? Well, is this the 
clerk that lost a bab — I mean, that waited on a 
lady ? Why, my wife, of course. Do you suppose I 
care what other — Well — if you can't understand, 
send someone to the phone who can. 

Nellie. Let me talk to him ! 

McDowell, {to wife) Keep out of this. {To 
phone) I was talking to my wife. You stay in. 
Now listen. Is this the clerk that sold a razor to my 
wife ? Well, she's nearly frantic — No, we don't 
want to exchange the razor. We want to exchange 
the baby. I mean, we w^ant our baby. BABY — 
BABY ! 1 You idiot ! My wife lost her baby 

Nellie. Left it — left it 

McDowell. Left it, LEFT IT— can't you under- 
stand ? 

Nellie, {hovering over the phone) Tell him it 
was the lady that had her dress torn off at the shoe 
counter. 

McDowell. The lady with her dress off at the shoe 



12 BARGAIN DAY. 

counter. No, the baby was lost at the RAZOR 
COUNTER! ! 1 ! 

Nellie. Tell him I had just given him a razor to 
play with 

McDowell. Great Scott ! ! A razor to play 
with! ! ! {To wife) 

Nellie. It was a safety razor ! Go on — see what 
the man says. Hurry ! 

McDowell. Say, can't you be calm and help us a 
little ? Who's excited ? Well, you'd be too, if you'd 
lost a baby ! How's that ? WHY, WHITE ! Do I 
look like a — How's that ? ? Why, he's a girl. 

Nellie. A BOY ! A BOY ! ! 

McDowell. A boy, a boy, a boy ! ! I ! {To wife) 
Will you quit butting in ? I was going to say, boy. 
{To phone) How's that ? All right ! I'll wait right 
here. {To wife) What's the number of this phone? 

Nellie. 235 Woodsdale. 

McDowell. {to phoiie) 235 Woodsdale. As 
quick as you can, please. {Turns from phone to wife) 
Well, I hope you have had enough bargains for one 
day! ! ! ! 

Nellie. I can never forgive myself — {cries) What 
did the man say? {Cries) 

McDowell. O, he was going to inquire at the In- 
formation Bureau, to see if the baby had asked for 
himself, then look through the LOST ARTICLE desk, 
to see if the baby had really lost himself — and then 

Nellie. Then — then ? ? ? ? 

McDowell. Look through the empty boxes to see 
if he had been thrown away as — 

Nellie. {Screams) 

McDowell. Now stop that screaming. That isn't 
going to help them with their red-tape system. I 
think for downright unadulterated ''foolishness a De- 
partment Store is the worst ever. Why couldn't they 
simply see if there was a baby there, and then send it 
up and not have all this suspense and red-tape busi- 



BARGAIN DAY. 13 

ness. I know I could go down there and in five 
minutes — 

Nellie. But there may have been several other 
babies — I know there were 

McDowell. You don't mean to tell me you were 
NOT the only fool woman — who took her baby I 

Nellie. Please don't scold me : I — I — 

McDowell. I'm not scolding. I simply want you 
to keep calm. 

Nellie. I don't believe — {sniff) — believe that you 
{s?iiff^ sniff) love him as much as I {sniff) do. 

McDowell. Maybe I don't — but I never left him 
at a department store ! {sarcasjn) Now stop that 
screaming ! He'll be all right wherever he is. What 
we want to do at this end of the line is to keep cool. 
{^He sits on edge of the chair and ru7is his hands through 
his hair and othej'wise manifests great pertH7'bation. 
Then, looks at phone) Why don't they hurry up ? 
{Fhofie rifigs) Hello. O, is this you, mother? well 
ring off. 

Nellie. Why Hammy, why didn't you let me speak 
to her. {Phone rings) If that's mother, let me speak 
to her. I don't want her to know — 

McDowell. Hello. Shut up. Wait a minute. 
Yes, this is 235 Woodsdale. Yes. No, I didn't buy 
a razor, my wife did. For me of course. Our boy's 
07ily a baby ! He's lost — left — at your store — (to wife) 
Here, you take this phone. They are about the 
stupidest lot o' numbskulls I ever heard talk. 

Nellie, {in sweet plaintive voice) Hello. Yes, 
I'm the mother. I — left him at the razor counter. 
Yes. He had on the dearest little white dress with 
embroidery around the bottom. And such a darling 
cap. Yes — I bought it at your store — the cap. Yes. 
He has such lovely blue eyes. No he's not old enough 
but he gurgles beautifully, and he can say Da-da-da. 
And — O, please — I shall die if he isn't found ! {puts 
head dow?i on table and C7'ies) 



14 BARGAIN DAY. 

McDowell {After a pause ^ bangs the phone up and 
sta7'ts for his coat and hat) 

Nellie, {looks up) Where are you going ? 

McDowell. To the pohce station. If I hadn't 
been such an idiot, I'd gone there in the first place 
instead of wasting all this time phoning to a lot of 
ignoramuses, that don't know beans. 

Nellie, {coming from phone) I'M going with you ! 

McDowell. With your nose all red and your dress 
all torn and your hair down your back! {Rumpling 
up his hair and undoing his cottar in his excitement) 
Indeed you're Not ! ! 

Nellie, {trying to fix her hair and dress but really 
getting things worse and looking about for something to 
wear takes the table-cloth a bright striped o?ie — or a gay 
color of some kind off^ the table and wraps about her) 
I must ! I simply can't stay here and suffer the un- 
certainty any longer — I'm going with you ! {During 
this hurry and rush he cannot get his overcoat on and 
after one or two futile attempts he picks up the rug from 
the floor — a bright one of some kind and wraps that 
about him) They start down stage when the door bell 
rifigs. 

Nellie, {starting for her roofn — ) If that's mother 
. — don't tell her I've left the baby, please ! 

McDowell, {gesticulating and walking toward the 
door) Here come back and face the music 1 You're 
the one to blame. I'm not going to open the door — 
{Another vig07'0us riftg) 

Nellie (7mth reproach) Why, Hamilton 1 {Loud 
and lofig ring) 

McDowell. If that's mother I bet you get it — all 
right. {He opens the door ivith an angry jerk and the 
Messenger yr<?;;^ the store stands there with two babies — 
one 7vhite and one black. lVhe?i he catches sight of them 
— and sees the way they are ga?'bed — he at once turns 
and starts to go) 

McDowell. Here, what do you mean ? Come 
t>ack I 



BARGAIN DAY. 15 

Nellie. My baby ! My baby I 

Messenger, {returns) I'm got in de tt/w«^ place. 
Ogscuse me ! (starts agaifi) 

McDowell. What in the thunder do you mean — 
Wait a minute I 

Messenger. I haf a white one and a black one but 
I hain't got me no dago 1 

McDowell. Dago ! 1 1 That baby is mine. 

Nellie. Please give me the baby — the baby ! 

Messenger. Eine moment. Vait a leetle. Are 
you de father or de mutter? 

McDowell, (fi'ig^y) I've had enough of this 1 
(starts to take the child) 

Messenger, (drawing back) Und may I ask al- 
ready vich von you vas — de mutter or de vater i* — So 
far as I vas able to make it out {^Looking from one to 
the other) I guess bote of you vas neider von, und so 
I takes me de baby back to de store already yet. 
McDowell. Now I've had all the red-tape business 
about this baby that I intend to stand for. What in 
the thunder are you driving at ? 

Messenger, (sloivly) My instructions from the 
store var : To deliver de child to eider de vater or de 
mutter — But bote of you vas neider von different from 
de udder von. You vas both von mixup und yust 
alike ! 

McDowell, (looking at himself and then at her and 
realizing) No wonder the man — Here take that table- 
cloth off. (He throws dowfi the rug and buttons his col- 
lar. She smooths her hair and piiis her dress together) 

Messenger, [grins and hands the white baby into 
Nellie's outstretched hands) Dat looks more like it ! 
Ya? 

Nellie. O you blessed, blessed babyl (Takes its 
little coat and cap off then exits quickly retur?iing with a 
bottle of milk. She then seats herself in a little rocker 
and is at once oblivious to everything and everybody — but 
the baby. She rocks it and croons) 

McDowell. Proffers the Messenger a ten-dollar bill ! 



16 BARGAIN DAY. 

Messenger. Ten dollar 1 ! ! May be you take dis 
von baby too ! ! ! 

McDowell. Thank you no. One is enough — for 
the present. 

Messenger. I tink it iss too much — No ? I mean 
dis money ! 

McDowell. Keep it. She's cured — and besides 
I was a bit worried myself. 

Messenger. Well ! ! Dis iss Bargain Day ! {Exits 
with grill) 

Nellie. O Hamilton — I'll never go to another 
Bargain Sale— NEVER ! 

McDowell, {putting on his hat and coat) And I'll 
never come home again for lunch — NEVER 1 

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« Boot* at the Swan 
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4 The Loan of a Lov«r 

5 The Dead Shot 

6 His Last '.ees 

7 The Invis.ole Prino« 
ft The (iol.len Farmer 

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10 Used Up 

1 1 The Irish Tutor 

12 The Barrack Room 

13 Luke the La orer 

14 Beauty and the Beft»t 

15 St. Patrick's live 

16 Captain of the Watch 

VOU HI. 
n The Se. ret [peM 

18 White Hor«e of the Pep- 
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20 The Bottle 

21 Box and Cox 

22 Bamhoozlliig 

23 Widow's Victim 

24 Robert Macair* 

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25 Secret Serrio* 

26 Omnibus 

27 Irish Lion 

28 Maid of CroUsT 
•29 The Old Guard 

50 Raiaini^ the Wind 

31 Slasher and Crasher 

32 Naral Engigements 

VOL. V. 

33 Cocknies in Califomi* 

34 Who Speaks First 
:<5 Bombastes Kurioso 
3« Macbeth Travastle 

37 Irish Atnbassjidor 

38 Delicate Ground 

39 The Weathercock [Gold 

40 All that Glitters It Not 

VOL. VL 

41 Grlmsliaw, Bagahaw and 

Bra.lshaw 

42 Rough Diamond 

13 Bloomer Costume 

14 Two Bonnycastles 

15 Born to Good Luck 

lb Kiss In the Dark [j'^'S'" 
47 'Twould Puzile ft Con- 

18 Kill or Cure 

VOL. vn. 

19 Box and Cox Married and 
6C St. C ipid [Settled 

51 Go-t» bed Tom 
62 The Lawyers 
53 Jack Sheppard 
64 The ' 'oodles 

55 The lobcap 

56 Ladids Beware 

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58 Popping the Quettloa 
69 Deaf us a Post 
80 Ne w Footman 
61 Pleasant Neighbor 
,2 Paddy the Piper 
«3 Brian O'Linn 
64 Irish Assurance 
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86 Temptation 
66 Paddv '"srey 

87 Two Gregoriee 

68 King Cha-miog 

69 Po-ca-hon-tas 

70 Clockmaker's Hat 

71 Married Rake 

72 Lore »ad Murder 

VOL. X. 

78 Ireland and America 

74 Pretty Piece of Business 

T5 Iriih Broom-maker 

76 To Paris au«» Back for 

Pive Pounds 
TT That Blessed BaW 
ft Our Gal 

79 Swiss Cattag* 
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82 Irish Post [riei 

88 My Neighbor'! Wife 

84 Irish Tiger 

85 P. P., or Man and Tiger 

86 To Oblige Benson 

87 State Secrets 

83 Irish Yankee 

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89 A Good Fellow 

90 Cherry and Fair Star 

91 Gale Breezeljr 

92 Our Jemiuiy 

93 Miller's Maid 

94 Awkward ArrlTal 

95 Crossing the Lin* 



97 My Wife's Mirror 

98 Life In New York 

99 Middy Aahor* 

100 Crown Princ« 

101 Two Queens 

102 Thumping Legacy 

103 Unfinished OonUemaa 

104 House Dog 

VOL. XIV. 

105 The Demon Lorer 

106 Matrimony 

107 InandOutof Plac« 

108 I Dine with My Mother 
10* Iii-a-wa-tha 

110 And V Blak* 

11 Love in '76 [ties 

12 Romance under Dimcul- 

VOL. XV. 

113 One Coat fori Suite 

114 A Decided Casa 

115 Daughter [norltv 
'16 Na; or, the Glorious Ml- 

17 Coroner's Inquisition 

18 Love in Humble Llf« 

119 Family Jars 

120 l^ersonation 

VOL. xvr. 

121 Children In the Wood 
22 Winning a Husband 

1 23 Day After the Fair 

124 Maki Your Willi 
'io Rendezvous 

26 My Wife's Husbaod 
I '^7 Monsieur Tonson 

28 Illustrious Stranger 

VOL. XVII. 

29 Mischief-Making [Ml lies 
130 A Live Woman in the 

The Corsair 

132 Shylock 

133 Spoiled Child 

134 Evil Eye 

135 Vothing to Nurs« 

136 Wanted* vvidoir ( 

VOL. xvm. 

137 Lottery Ticket 
' "" Fortune's Frolic 
1.39 Is he Jealous? 
KO Married Bachelor 

141 Husband at Sight 

142 Irishman In London 

143 Ani iia! Magnetism 

144 Highways and By-Wftys 

VOL. XIX. 
45 Columbus 

146 Harlequin Bluebeard 

147 Ladles at Home 

148 Phenomenon in a SinocK 
Frock 

149 Comedy and Tragedy 

150 Opposite Neighbors 

151 Dutchman's Ghost 

152 Persecuted Dutchman 

VOL. XX. 
58 ivfusard Ball 
■ 5J Great Tragic Revival 
15S High Low Jack & Game 
166 A Gentleman from Ire- 
157 Tom and Jerry [land 

168 Vilhge Lawyer 

169 Captain's not A-mist 
60 Amateurs iuif! Actors 




161 Pro 

162 A 

163 Mri 

164 Sha 
16i Nei 

166 Lad 

167 Tak 

168 Irish Widow [Charley 

VOL. XXIL 

169 Yankee Peddler 

170 Hiram Hireout 

171 Double-Bedded Room 

172 The Drama Deiended 

173 Vermont Wool Dealer 

174 Ebenezer Venture [tei 

175 Principles from Charac 

176 Lady of the La'ae (Trav) 

VOL. XXIU. 

177 Mad Dogs 

178 Burney the Bnron 

179 Swiss Swains 

180 Bachelor's Bedroom 

181 A Roland for an Oliver 
18S More Blunders than One 
183 Dumb Belle 

ln4 Limerick boy 

VOL. XXIV. 

185 Nature and Philosophy 

186 Teddy the Tiler 

187 Spectre Bridegroom 
Matteo Falcone 

189 Jenny Lind 

190 Two Buzzard* 
Happy .M*a 

193 Betsy Baker 

VOL. XXV. 

193 No. 1 Round th« Comer 

194 Teddy Roe 

195 Object of Interest 
96 My Fellow Clerk 

197 Bengal Tiger 

198 Laughing Hyena 

199 The Victor Vanquished 

200 Our Wife 
VOL. XXVL 

201 My Husband's Mirror 
Yankee Land 

203 Norah Creina 

204 Good for Nothing 
206 The First Night 

206 The Eton Boy 

207 Wandering Minstrel 

208 Wanted, 1000 Milliners 

VOL. xxvn. 

!09 Poor Pilcoddy 

210 The Mummy [Glasses 

21 1 Don't Forget your Opera 

212 Love in Livery 

213 Anthony and Cleopatra 

214 Trying It On 

215 Stage Strucrk Yanke* 

216 Young Wife & Old Um- 
brella 

VOL. xxvni. 

217 Crinoline 

218 A Family Falllnff 

219 Adopted Child 

220 Turned Heads 

221 A Match in the Dark 

222 Advice to Husband* 

223 Siamese Twins 

224 Sent to the Tower 
VOL. XXIX. 

925 Somebodv Flse 
2 6 Ladies' B"attle 

227 Art of Acting 

228 The Ladv of the Lion* 

229 The Rights of Man 

230 Mv Husoand's Ghost 

231 Two Can Play at that 
Game 

Fighting by Proxy 
VOL. "KXX. 

233 Unprotected Frmal* 

234 Pet of the Petticoats 

235 Forty and Fifty [hook 
238 Who Stole the PockeJ- 
J.37 My Son Diana [sion 
238 Unwarrantable I n t * u - 
2.39 Mr. xnd M's. White 
240 A Quiet Family 



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248 Perplexing Predicament 

VOL. XXXll. 

249 Dr. DUworth 

250 Out to Nurse 

251 A Lucky Hit 
•252 The Dowager 

253 Metamora (BurVbque) 

254 Dreams of Delusion 

255 The Shaker Lover* 
266 Ticklish Times 

VOL. XXXIIL 
•i57 20 Minutes with a Tiger 

268 Miralda; or, the Justice 

of Tacon 

259 A Soldier's Courtship 

260 Servants by Legacy 

261 Dying for Love 
26-2 Alarming Sacrifice 

263 Valet de Shhm 

264 Nicholas Mckleby 

VOL. XXXIV; 

265 The Last of the Pigtails 

266 King Rene's Daughter 

267 Th« Grotto Nymph 
368 A Devilish Good Joke 

269 A Twice Told Tale 

270 Pas de Fascination 

71 Revolutionary Soldier 

272 A Man Without a Head 

VOL. XXXV. 

273 The Olio, Part 1 
974 The Olio, Part 9 

275 The Olio, Part 8 [iet 

276 The Trumpeter's Daugh. 

277 Seeing Warren 

278 Green Mountain Boy 

279 That Nose 

280 Tom Noddy's Secret 

VOL. XXXVL 

281 Shocking EvenU 

282 A Regular Fix 

283 Dick Turpin 

284 Young Sc.mp 

285 Young Actress 

286 Call at No. 1—7 

2»7 One Touch of Natuf* 

288 Two B'hoys 

VOL. xxxvn. 

289 All the World's a Stage 

290 Quash, or Nigger Prao- 

291 Turn Him Out [tiee 

292 Pretty Girls of Stlllber^ 

293 Angel of the Attic 

294 CrcumstancesalterCase* 

295 Katty O'Sheal 

296 A Supper in Dixl* 

VOL. xxxvin. 

297 Id on Parle Francals 

298 Who Killed Cock Robin 

299 Declaration of ludepend- 

300 Heads or Tails [ence 
Obstinate Family 

302 My Aunt 

303 That Rascal Pat 
:^04 Don Paddy de Bazan 

VOL. XXXTX. [ture 

305 Too Much for Good Na- 

306 Cure for the Fidgets 

307 Jnck's the Lad 

308 Much Ado A bout Nothing 

309 Artful Dodeer 

310 Winning Hazard 

311 Day's Fishing [*C 
812 Did you ev' r send your, 

VOL. XL. 

313 An Irishman's Maneuver 

314 Cousin ^''nnnie 

31 Ti 'Tis the Darkest Honrbe- 

316 Masquerade [fore Dawn 

317 Crowding the Season 
31 »< Good Niffht'sRost 

319 Man with the CarpetB*** 
.320 Terrible Tinker 



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